tips and tricks

[Jodieozy]

Hi There, I'm new to this site and I'm looking for some help :rolleyes: ?? I have made up my site and its soooo Plan I would love to add some colour and Pics and On my Front page I can't see where you can take the writing of and write about your shop.... :blink:

 

I have looked and looked :( and I can't find it.

 

 

Hope some one can help me please.... B)

 

 

Thanks Jodie

[Guest]

Hi Jodie,

 

I'm a newbie too but already discovered how to do this. It's a little confusing at first but not too bad.

 

You need to find Index in your catalog/includes/languages/english/index folder.

 

Open that in notepad or a text editor.

 

Go down to where it says:

 

define('TEXT_MAIN',

 

and delete everything between that and:

 

 ');

define('TABLE_HEADING_NEW_PRODUCTS', 'New Products For %s');

 

Actually, it tells you on your default page to do this but you missed it. ;)

 

Put in the text that you want. You can't just put in any HTML code but you can put in <br> for line breaks. You will need to put / before an apostrophe as in:

 

Jim/'s for Jim's

 

Stick with simple text first and then you can worry about adding images. That is not done with regular HTML either from what I can tell.

 

As far as colors go, you can edit a LOT by changing the stylesheet in your general catalog folder..

 

You should also check out this manual. It has a LOT of information.

 

http://wiki.oscommerce.com/docs

 

 

~ Dawn

[♥yesudo]

http://wiki.oscommerce.com/docsCat

[OceanRanch]

If you want to add alot of info about your store on the home page you can edit the TEXT_MAIN defines in the various catalog/[language]/index.php files.

 

Or if you like you can create a full html page --- let's called it mystore.html

 

Then edit catalog/index.php and change around line 307 and change

 

<td class="main"><?php echo TEXT_MAIN; ?></td>

 

to

 

<td class="main"><?php require('mystore.html'); ?></td>

 

and you can have all kinds of stuff in there and not worry about special characters and escaping them etc.

 

HTH

Tom

[241]

I have no issues with adding tables and other things between the ''

[Jodieozy]

How do I find You need to find Index in your catalog/includes/languages/english/index folder ?????????

[241]

I believe that should have been

catalog/includes/languages/english/index.php file

[Jodieozy]

Ok well how do I find it

[Guest]

If you can't find the file, then either:

 

1. somehow you didn't get it and need to reinstall it

 

2. you need to learn how locate a file within multiple directories before you attempt this project

 

Not sure which one it is.

[rseigel]

Please read all the docs first.

 

http://wiki.oscommerce.com/

 

You obviously have a LOT of learning ahead of you. ;)